Producers opted to cancel since the musical has been in previews for less than a week, and Mutu’s understudy, Bradley Dean (“The Last Ship,” “Evita”), hadn’t gone through rehearsals yet, the producers confirmed.

Dean has since stepped into the title role and performances resumed at the Broadway Theatre on Friday.

Mutu is expected back within a few days. He’s making his Broadway debut in “Doctor Zhivago” after performances in London stagings of “Les Misérables” and “Love Never Dies.”

The epic romantic musical, based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, opens officially on April 21.